DBMS > AgensGraph vs. dBASE vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. dBASE vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.dbase.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Asthon Tate

Alachisoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

Initial release

2016

1979

2005

2011

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

dBASE 2019, 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
» more

Competitive advantages

NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
» more

Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
» more

Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
» more

Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
» more

Licensing and pricing models

NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.